Ten years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it might be the ideal time to "revisit" New York city.
This class looks at New York from various perspectives:
History and Urban studies: New York City: historical development, growth, and significance, the city in a global context
New York in literature, 9/11 as historical event and in literature/culture (novels such as Falling Man or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, poetry, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers),
New York as a cultural space and space of cultural trauma and memory: "ground zero" the situation 10 years later
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